That’s why it is so “effective” at raisin’ fish…Is yours missing hook point, too?
The next frontier in catch and release fishing: hookless flies!That’s why it is so “effective” at raisin’ fish…
The next frontier in catch and release fishing: hookless flies!
Thanks, cool story!Look up Lee Spencer
You like to read? Send me you’re address and I’ll send you his book.Thanks, cool story!
Interview: Lee Spencer | MidCurrent
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“You cannot make a machine from living parts. Life is too dynamic, too uncertain. To an industrialized mind, uncertainty is identified as a problem. An attempt will be made to regulate it. The problem is not the uncertainty inherent in life. The problem is the machine template and the industrialized consciousness. By domesticating natural systems, instability increases and with it the assurance of ultimate, catastrophic failure. What we view as the uncertainty of nature is actually the most stable balancing act possible.”
It reminds me of Thoreau's "In wildness is the preservation of the world."
OMG, yes! Thank you! PM coming.You like to read? Send me you’re address and I’ll send you his book.
Huh. I spent a huge chunk of my professional life essentially making machines from living organisms. Genetically manipulating cells to manufacture therapeutic proteins, and engineering the process of growing them and coaxing them to produce as much as possible, as consistantly as possible. (And trying to explain to chemists why a bioreactor full of living cells won't behave as predictably as a chemical reaction!)“You cannot make a machine from living parts. Life is too dynamic, too uncertain. To an industrialized mind, uncertainty is identified as a problem. An attempt will be made to regulate it. The problem is not the uncertainty inherent in life. The problem is the machine template and the industrialized consciousness. By domesticating natural systems, instability increases and with it the assurance of ultimate, catastrophic failure. What we view as the uncertainty of nature is actually the most stable balancing act possible.”
They grow them big in the rivers you fish! When you use a heavy anchor like that, do you "dap" the stimluator on the surface while tightlining to the anchor?@Zak , you were correct, the snowshoe sub on the black stimulator floats well enough to hold up the knuckle dragging stone. This has payete paste but I'll get some frogs fanny when I order next.
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The fish dug that stimulator. This guy missed the first take, so I dried it while the fish settled back in, represented, and he came completely out of the water in a huge rainbow arc, crashing down mouth first on the fly in a huge splash. Got another eat like that but I eventually lost it.
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The knuckle dragging stone is turning out to be a good little anchor fly.
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It will hold it up well enough for an up and across for dead drift, and if it sinks it just might get ate, but I can still see it for subtle takes on the nymph. Todays water was more suited to cast and drift than tightline. I have it set so the separation is about 1' greater than the depth. If presented down stream the dry can be danced on top.They grow them big in the rivers you fish! When you use a heavy anchor like that, do you "dap" the stimluator on the surface while tightlining to the anchor?
Out of curiosity, what percentage of takes were on the nymph vs the stimulator?It will hold it up well enough for an up and across for dead drift, and if it sinks it just might get ate, but I can still see it for subtle takes on the nymph. Todays water was more suited to cast and drift than tightline. I have it set so the separation is about 1' greater than the depth. If presented down stream the dry can be danced on top.
probably 2-3 on the nymph to 1 on the stimulatorOut of curiosity, what percentage of takes were on the nymph vs the stimulator?
VT Caddis ! A fly I have not tied in over 25 years and forgot about until today. I will tie some and see if the fish still like old school tiesI took the day off and went fishing. I picked up my friend Todd at the Mukilteo ferry, I'm teaching him to fly fish. Tons of small rainbows along the Mountain Loop Highway. A Vermont Caddis was working best until it got shredded, then an Ausable Bomber worked fine. I put a small muddler/Letort hopper on Todd's line, because when he let it drag it fished like a wet fly.
Yours truly:
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Todd:
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Love this jumbled structure, there were trout in tiny but deep pockets:
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